The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

The Donkeys at the Museum event was created in partnership with the Donkey Breed Society, and features a display of purple ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

From WWII to the Jersey shore, find out the chilling details on some of the scariest shark attacks in history.

Camouflage patterns are more than just designs, they are incredible tools of survival and deception used by military forces, ...

Between 85 to 100 cats were found crowded inside the home. A post on Facebook from Katdadde, Inc. said it was a hoarding ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example.

It wasn’t a dog or a monkey that was first sent into space—it was fruit flies. This video reveals the surprising and often heartbreaking timeline of animals in space, highlighting their role in ...